McCain Knocks Obama’s Foreign Cred

President Obama has mishandled foreign policy in the Middle East, Republican Sen. John McCain said Sunday. In particular, the United States should be putting weapons in the hands of forces opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, McCain said. The senator dismissed the idea that rebels may then use those same weapons in attacks against friendly nations, calling the Syrian opposition a “direct repudiation of al Qaeda” that tried first to achieve regime change peacefully. “How could we not stand up for these people?” McCain said in an appearance on ABC’s This Week. “How could we sit by and watch this slaughter go on while the president of the United States is totally silent?”